This coming May, the THE BRITISH COLUMBIA CONFERENCE OF MENNONITE BRETHREN CHURCHES will be presenting the MB Pastors & Spouses Retreat 2007, which will feature Pete Scazzero. Scazzero is the author of the 2006 book, Emotionally Healthy Spirituality, which is described as “a groundbreaking work on the integration of emotional health and contemplative spirituality in our discipleship and formation in Christ.”
As we reported last November (see report), Scazzero is a proponent of contemplative prayer and promotes several mystics and panentheists in his book.
According to the BC Conference of Mennonite Brethren website, their vision is “that every person in the Province of BC will have contact with a committed Christ follower who loves them.” Unfortunately, if these “Christ” followers are adhering to the teachings of Scazzero and those he promotes (like Meister Eckhart, Tilden Edwards, and Basil Pennington), it may not be the Jesus Christ of the Bible that the people of British Columbia will be introduced to. We pray and hope that the BC Mennonite Brethren will reconsider the consequences of contemplative spirituality and turn away from the direction they appear to be heading.
